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Alessandro Fersen is a Actor and Writer Italien born on 5 december 1911 at Łódź (Pologne)

Alessandro Fersen

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Nationality Italie
Birth 5 december 1911 at Łódź (Pologne)
Death 3 october 2001 (at 89 years) at Rome (Italie)

Alessandro Fersen (5 December 1911 – 3 October 2001) was a Polish-born Italian dramatist, actor, theater director, author and drama teacher.

Born Aleksander Fajrajzen in Łódź to a Jewish family, Fersen he moved to Genoa with his family in 1913. A student under Giuseppe Rensi, in 1934 he graduated in philosophy at the University of Genoa with a thesis later published under the title L'Universo come giuoco ("The Universe as a game"). Due to the racial laws of 1938 he moved to Paris (where he attended the Collège de France) and then in Eastern Europe. Back in Italy in 1943, he participated in the resistance in Liguria, in a partisan group linked to the Italian Socialist Party, before working in Switzerland, where he became friends with Emanuele Luzzati and Giorgio Colli.

He returned to Italy at the end of World War II, and after a period in which he devoted himself to political activity (being a member of the Secretary of the National Liberation Committee of Genoa and Liguria) and journalism (as a collaborator of newspapers Il Lavoro and Corriere del Popolo), in 1947 he began his activity as a theater director with the drama Leah Lebowitz, a play which he had taken from a Hasidic legend; this play started with the artistic collaboration, which will last decades, with Emanuele Luzzati, with whom founded the "Teatro Ebraico" ("Jewish Theatre"), staging dramas written by him such as Golem (1969), inspired by the Yiddish folklore, or Leviathan (1974), based on the techniques of mnemodrama.

From 1947 Fersen worked for more than a decade for the Teatro Stabile of Genoa, directing adaptations of Shakespeare, Pirandello, Molière, Anouilh, among others. In 1957 he began a career as a drama teacher founding an acting school in Rome, the "Studio di arti sceniche", inspired by the Stanislavski's system. He was also an author of critical and theoretical essays, aimed at an interdisciplinary theater, and an actor active on stage, on television and in films.

Usually with

Andrea Checchi
Andrea Checchi
(4 films)
Nerio Bernardi
Nerio Bernardi
(4 films)
Riccardo Freda
Riccardo Freda
(1 films)
Mario Serandrei
Mario Serandrei
(3 films)
Mario Bava
Mario Bava
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alessandro Fersen (15 films)

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Le Amiche
Le Amiche (1955)
, 1h44
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, Madeleine Fischer
Roles (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.544443.544443.544443.544443.54444
Returning to her native Turin for the opening of a branch of a Rome fashion salon, the elegant Clelia (Eleonora Rossi Drago) discovers a young woman named Rosetta Savoni (Madeleine Fischer) near death in the next room of her hotel. Rosetta took an overdose of sleeping pills in an attempt to commit suicide. Clelia, who is alone in her hometown, befriends Rosetta and her three wealthy friends. Momina De Stefani (Yvonne Furneaux) is separated from her husband and easily replaces lovers. Nene (Valentina Cortese) is a talented artist becoming successful in her career; she is living with a frustrated painter named Lorenzo (Gabriele Ferzetti) who envies the success of his wife. Mariella (Anna Maria Pancani) is futile. Clelia is attracted by Carlo (Ettore Manni), the assistant of the salon's architect, Cesare Pedoni (Franco Fabrizi), but he belongs to the working class living in a different social reality. When Momina and Clelia discover that the reason Rosetta tried to commit suicide was because she felt in love for Lorenzo, the cynical Momina encourages Rosetta to stay with him, even though he and Nene were supposed to marry soon. The advice leads to tragic consequences.
Theodora, Slave Empress
Theodora, Slave Empress (1954)
, 1h31
Directed by Riccardo Freda
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Actors Gianna Maria Canale, Georges Marchal, Renato Baldini, Henri Guisol, Alessandro Fersen, Irène Papas
Roles Metropolita
Rating58% 2.906462.906462.906462.906462.90646
Au VI siècle, l’empereur Justinien se promène incognito dans les rues de Constantinople lorsqu’il fait la connaissance d’une danseuse nommée Théodora. Séduit par sa beauté, il lui offre un pendentif mais elle disparaît en emportant celui-ci.
Knights of the Queen
Knights of the Queen (1954)
, 1h19
Directed by Mauro Bolognini
Genres Adventure
Themes Histoire de France
Actors Sebastian Cabot, Jeffrey Stone, Marina Berti, Paul Müller, Tamara Lees, Paola Borboni

Les trois mousquetaires servent les desseins de Marie de Médicis et sauvent l'infante d'Espagne.
The Two Orphans
The Two Orphans (1954)
, 1h35
Directed by Giacomo Gentilomo
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Political films, Films based on plays, French Revolution films
Actors Myriam Bru, Paolo Poli, Milly Vitale, André Luguet, Franco Interlenghi, Jacques Castelot
Roles Michel Gérard - the father
Rating58% 2.916322.916322.916322.916322.91632
Il s'agit d'une des nombreuses adaptation de la pièce et du roman Les Deux Orphelines d’Adolphe d'Ennery et Eugène Cormon.
Puccini
Puccini (1953)

Directed by Carmine Gallone
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Gabriele Ferzetti, Märta Torén, Nadia Gray, Paolo Stoppa, Myriam Bru, Sergio Tofano
Roles padre di Delia
Rating62% 3.130943.130943.130943.130943.13094
Le film raconte l'histoire romancée avec diverses inexactitudes de la vie du compositeur. Son histoire d'amour avec Elvira Bonturi, qui a abandonné son mari pour lui et avec qui elle a eu son fils Antonio, est tout à fait exacte, tout comme le fait que Puccini avait de nombreux amantes, y compris des chanteuses célèbres, mais il n'a jamais abandonné sa femme à qui il est toujours resté fidèle à sa manière.
Jealousy
Jealousy (1953)

Directed by Pietro Germi
Genres Drama
Actors Marisa Belli, Erno Crisa, Alessandro Fersen, Vincenzo Musolino, Paola Borboni, Gustavo Serena
Roles Don Silvio
Rating68% 3.4208453.4208453.4208453.4208453.420845
Dans un village de Sicile, un homme est tué le jour de son mariage. L'assassin confesse le crime au curé et lui raconte son histoire.
Il sentiero dell'odio
Il sentiero dell'odio (1950)

Directed by Sergio Grieco
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Marina Berti, Andrea Checchi, Carla Del Poggio, Checco Rissone, Alessandro Fersen, Piero Lulli
Roles Carmine Spada, il padre di Chiara

Drame italien.
The Walls of Malapaga
The Walls of Malapaga (1949)
, 1h35
Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Andrea Checchi, Carlo Tamberlani, Ave Ninchi, Robert Dalban
Rating67% 3.3893.3893.3893.3893.389
Pierre, meurtrier de son infidèle maîtresse arrive à Gênes, où il rencontre Marta, une serveuse de restaurant. Entre eux, se noue une brève idylle, chargée de menaces car Marta a une petite fille, Cecchina, dont la jalousie est proche de la haine.